GROTTAZZOLINA – The celebrations for Yuasa Grottazzolina’s first historic promotion to the Super League did not distract the managers from the campaign to strengthen the team. The roster available to coach Ortenzi acquires new elements almost every day.
Yuasa Grottazzolina wrote another memorable page with the promotion to the Super League. The inexorable climb from the C series in just a few years has brought the yellow-blue club to the top, which has made programming its creed, relying on coach Ortenzi who will be the youngest coach in the men’s top division to drive the team from the smallest municipality among the participants in the highest national tournament. The team that starts again with home captain Riccardo Vecchi will have to move to Porto San Giorgio and this will be a challenge to win because PalaGrotta has always been a factor. Having to leave your home has never been easy to digest for any fan even if 20 km is a small distance to cover for an entire province in love with the yellow and blues. The Super Cup final and the Italian Cup Final Four represented the completion of a perfect season with all players named honorary citizens of Grottazzolina. Le Marche hasn’t had two teams in the top flight for 15 years: then, next to Lube there was Loreto.
For Serie A men’s volleyball from the Marche region it was a season to remember for having obtained three promotions and having increased the number of representatives. In the next season there will be five teams at the start thanks to the arrival of The Begin Ancona capable of making the leap from B which will be added to Civitanova, Grottazzolina, Macerata and Fano.
Among the new faces there is an old acquaintance like the setter Tsimafei Zhukouski, born in 1989, born in Minsk but naturalized Croatian. He will be entrusted with the reins of the game. He returns to Italy after good experiences in various clubs. Another return to Italy is that of the former Italian player Oleg Antonov which will be a guarantee of quality and quantity. He is confirmed in the libero role Andrea Marchisio who gets a taste of the Super League again after his years as deputy in the Cucine Lube. The Captain Riccardo Vecchi, boy from home, remembers how long and exhilarating the path taken by the yellow-blue club to get to the top was. Further movements concern the confirmation of Andrea Mattei and the first new face of Yuasa Battery Grottazzolina in the power plants department. The choice fell on Danny Demyanenko. Canadian from Toronto, born in 1994, he is a central defender who already has seven seasons in the French top flight under his belt. With his national team, the central defender also played in the 2023 FIVB Olympic qualifiers, achieving his goal and therefore Yuasa Battery fans will be able to see him at work in the most prestigious of world sports showcases, the Paris 2024 Olympics, starting on the 26th July.
